Problem With The LUI

I recently installed ubuntu to my vm workstation and keep getting a blinking cursor
i know its the server version and thats the norm but how do i install the web and file servers

Hi every One

I' like to install linux in my new laptop , I want to install a distribution based on Red hat Linux, so which one do you suggest to me (CentOS, OpenSuSe or Fedora). I've already an Ubuntu Debian based linux (I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed in my second laptop).

Thanks a lot.

I'm new to Linux but have a WD MyCloud 2TB NAS. I want to run Logitech Media Server (LMS) on it and have found instructions on Logitech Forums on how to do it. Unfortunately it does not work for me. I've downloaded the deb file and used dpkg -i on that file. This gives a load of lines like this
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpam-winbind:armhf' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
and in the end LS does not appear to be running. Would anyone know what these lines are telling me and any suggestions as to how to fix the problem.
I can get no response from the Logitech forums so any help here would be greatly appreciated.
PS:The version of Linux seems to be
Linux WDMyCloud 3.2.26 #1 SMP Tue Jun 17 15:53:22 PDT 2014 wd-2.2-rel armv7l

I tried doing a search on this topic, but the only hit I got was my "Howdy" intro post from yesterday. So I thought I'd go ahead and toss out this question to the forum to see if there is a particular distribution I should be looking at.

Currently I have two PCs on my home network that share a monitor, mouse, and keyboard. One of them is my digital audio workstation (aka DAW), a computer that I use for music composition, production, and recording, and the other is the one I'm typing on at the moment, which until very recently has been just sitting around doing nothing -- through no fault of its own. It had a bad power supply which I just recently replaced. But now that I have it up and running again, I would like to use it for some experimentation. It has two drives installed, one of which is currently running Windows 7. The other has an older distribution of Ubuntu on it -- about three years old or so. Because it's such an old distribution, I'm thinking about replacing it with whatever will give me the best performance in terms of working with audio and MIDI.

I'm not very conversant at all with Linux. About all I did with this old Ubuntu distro was play around with it some. And then, when I installed Win7, it killed the Ubuntu boot sector, so it's been quite a while since I've even logged into the Linux side of things.

I don't suppose I even need to mention that I'll also be installing a boot manager so that I can go back and forth between the OSes. I've been playing around some with Grub2Win, but for some reason it doesn't find my Linux installation. I need to check into that a bit further.

SO getting back to the music production topic, is there even a significant difference in the way the various distributions would handle audio and MIDI?

I've done some googling on the subject of the best linux distributions and, what I've found is that "best" tends to vary a lot over a fairly narrow time period. Bodhi, Mint, Megeia, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubunto (for laptops), OpenSUSE, etc., all of these and more make the "best of" list at one time or another over a relatively short period of time -- say three years or so in terms of a timeframe. I've got to admit that, just from a name perspective, I already have a bit of an attraction the Bodhi. Not only is its interface supposed to be beautiful, but apparently the Bodhi community are more visual-art-centric (in addition to being a musician and a whole lot of other things, I'm also a visual artist), plus my old Earthlink email address was bodhi at earthlint dot net. I closed my earthlink account some ten years ago or so, so it's naught but a fading memory. Someone else likely has it now. Anyway, I am for sure gonna give Bodhi a look-see. Right now, I'm reading through a "top seven for 2014" list put together by Carla Schroder over at linux.com.

I'm hoping I can reduce the size of this list some, not just to save time but also to save disks if I have to burn copies to disk to try them out.

So, if you happen to use Linux for making music, do you have a favorite? If so, I'd like to learn about it and why you like it.

hello sir
you sloved my problem error while insatlling ns2.33 in ubuntu 10.04. my ns2.33 has been installed now. thanks for last answer. i asked this que with other account. bt now there is again one problem arrived. when i was running example from tcl file of ns2.33, the simulation was completing without showing on nam animator. i tried so many examples bt all are running on terminal only. not showing any animation. so please help me.

Friends ,

Recently I got two problem in my redhat machine :


version :

[root@pbltest ~]# cat /etc/issue
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Carthage)
Kernel \r on an \m

my vsftpd service is not started . I remove it and clean install and when I make restart then it stops but not started successfully .

When I check the log of "/var/log/messages" , then I found 'message' file is empty . I rename it and reboot the server but it doesnt generate any messages .

Please help me to resolve it .. ...

hello all at linuxquestions

first off would just like to say how useful this resource is, Ive been setting up a VM server in lubuntu recently and this site has given me alot of help and helped me get it off the ground. Im certainly a linux noob and only been messing around in linux for a week, so please forgive me for any derpy terminology

anyway, I installed lubuntu onto a VM as an intention to use it as a server
to be honest it was an ISO I had lying around and due to it being "light" I just went for it

however I have since discovered ubuntu do a flavour known as "ubuntu server"

first off..
what is the difference between ubuntu server and regular ubuntu/lubuntu etc?
is it just that it does not load a full fat gui?
if there is a big diffrence would it be easy to "turn" lubuntu into ubuntu server? since they are sort of based off each other?

secondly, lubuntu loads up lxde upon boot, I was wondering if there was a way for it to just boot up without the gui with the option to turn it on via shell (startx etc)
this is because I have little ram to play with but I also like to use the GUI sometimes when needing to do certain admin stuff, for example I use steam via Wine to download steam games sometimes

I was pondering the idea of installing ubuntu server and then downloading the lxde desktop and going that route, but Im not sure if it would bring any benefit opposed to just modifiying my current lubuntu installation

any advise or tips would be welcome

thanks!

Hi everyone!

Having read about the latest LibreOffice version, I felt tempted to try it out. I uninstalled the default version on my Ubuntu machine and downloaded the .deb from the LibreOffice site and installed it. The new office has since worked without any trouble.

A few days later I decided to dump Unity and go back to Gnome. So I installed Ubuntu-Gnome-Desktop.

It was then that I noticed two versions of LibreOffice on the application dash (I think, because there are two sets of icons for each office application- see the attached screenshot).

Did Gnome install its own version of LibreOffice with it? Does it really have one? I don't know.

Whichever icon I use to launch the app, the office however always brings up the latest version. So, there's no problem in terms of application errors. As I thought there's no need to have an extra version of an app and eat up my space, I tried to uninstall through Aptitude, but it doesn't 'remove' LibreOffice.

Any advice, please! Thanks in advance.

Hi, my name is Daniel & I've been considering trying out Linux. A friend of mine says he's got Linux's Ubuntu, & says he really likes it. I've got experience building computers, & Computer Networking. I've got a Desktop w/a free (empty, unformatted) 150 GB Seagate HDD, so I'd like to try using that HDD for a version of Linux. I'm running Win. 7 Ultimate on my primary drive, but I had to install the Win. 7 Ult. 32 bit disc for it to run successfully. I'm considering a dual boot system.

The System I built has an ASUS (A8N-SLI) 64 bit, Socket 939, NVidia N-Force4 Motherboard, w/an AMD, Athlon XP 4000+ 64 bit CPU. I've got 2 ASUS/NVidia G-Force N6800GT PCI Express Graphics Cards, w/256 MB DDR3 RAM each (using my SLI). I've got 2-1 GB 184 pin sticks of Corsair 3200+, 400 Mhz, CL-2 DDR-RAM. I' ve also got a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Sound System (4.1), w/internal PCI Card & external control box that runs w/Fire Wire. I've also got an Acer 24" Digital monitor, & 1 CD/DVD Burner,& 1 NEC Dual Layer DVD Burner.
I went into detail, just in case my system has something requiring a certain version of Linux. My main problem is, I don't know anything about coding, so I guess I need a version of Linux w/a robust GUI. I thank you in advance for your time & consideration. I look forward to hearing from you. -)

I have several computers connected to a D-Link DIR605L router, two with ethernet cables and two through wifi. The Windows XP computer can see itself and nobody else. The Ubuntu (trusty) desktop and Ubuntu (lucid) netbook computers see nobody (unable to retrieve file list from server) and the Windows Vista computer only sees itself. Clearly, I have failed to configure something or a set of somethings.
Do I have to have one of the computers always on, acting as some kind of file server or can the router do this job? This is a new router. My old one (whose power supply went phut) connected everybody without arguing about it and we could share files around, even with a mix of OSs.
Since this is a local network only, I have no firewalls enabled, as far as I know ...
All of the network set-up posts I've found rabbit on about how to get your internet connection working through your router, which is not an option for me. I have dial-up working on the XP computer and a mobile wireless USB dongle for internet access on the trusty desktop.
I've installed samba and a few other packages, but so far, none of them have solved my problem. Can someone please tell me where to start and which tutorials to read? If I have to set up a computer as a file server, I guess it will have to be the XP thing, as it's the only one that is always running, but I'd like to avoid that, if possible, as I speak XP worse than I speak Ubuntu.
BTW, D-Link are no help at all, two hours on the 'phone and they were still trying to get me to connect to an ADSL service I don't have ...